Vinicius Assef
Senior Software Engineer at PandaDoc
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolVinicius Assef is a senior backend engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient, high-performance Python systems using Django, FastAPI and related tooling. He has a strong track record of cutting costs and latency—examples include shrinking database spend by 60% and reducing report times from minutes to seconds—while improving fault tolerance with self-healing async tasks. Comfortable across fintech, edtech, insurance and government domains, he routinely optimizes databases, caches complex queries, and implements robust integrations with external partners. An advocate for TDD and lean practices, he also mentors newcomers, drives onboarding, and shapes development processes. Vinicius contributes to open-source projects from front-end form validation fixes in the widely used Foundation framework to backend improvements in web2py, reflecting a full-stack curiosity beyond his backend focus. Based in Rio de Janeiro and recently focused on remote-first engineering, he blends pragmatic engineering with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Programming, High School Diploma Computer Programming at CCI -Centro Capixaba de InformáticaBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Universidade AbertaEstácio de Sá University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
internationalization10
javascript10
localization10
foundation-sites10
front-end-development10
python10
form-validation10
jquery9
database9
database-api9
html9
responsive-design9
databases9
css7
front7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
web2py/web2py
Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Vinicius contributed to the web2py framework by modifying both backend and frontend components. They enhanced form submission behavior, addressed database interaction issues by allowing empty reference fields, and improved the framework's localization support by controlling translation file writes. Furthermore, the user added a Portuguese (Brazilian) translation for both the admin and welcome applications. Finally, they modified the application to retrieve `response.view` from the environment.
securepythonmysqlagilesql
foundation/foundation-sites
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Vinicius primarily worked on improving the form validation functionality within the Foundation Sites framework. They modified the `foundation.abide.js` file to fix bugs related to textarea and select validation, and to correctly handle radio buttons. These changes included updating the code to submit forms only when validation passed and refactoring error handling functions to enhance code maintainability. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience by refining form validation behaviors.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
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